Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes

I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.

Stevie Wonder

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• We must strive to become good ancestors.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Strive
  • Ancestors

• Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • History
  • Age
  • Free

• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Awesome
  • Dinner
  • Bread

• I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • Men
  • Walk

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Character
  • Job
  • Myself

• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Child

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Success
  • Bored

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Person
  • Honor
  • Reward

• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • City
  • Chicago

• In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Growth

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• If you're not in it you can't win it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Win

• There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • You
  • Food
  • Need

• I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Being
  • Kid
  • Just

• Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Pride
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

  

  Carol Bellamy
  • Work
  • Organization

• Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Great
  • Important
  • Money

• Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Money
  • Enough
  • Lifetime